>> > And no doubt some poor slave just finished chisling in all the closing
>> > stock prices for the Roman Stock Exchange and some spelling weenie piped up
>> > and said only, "You misspelled 18 on line 30 there."
>> and said only, "You misspelled XVIII on line XXX there."
>Now we know where his family went after there was no longer
>a roman stock exchange :)
OTOH, if we all used Roman Numerals for data storage still, there would
be no Y2K problem due to "extra" digits!
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Received on Wed Apr 21 1999 - 16:12:20 BST